Modern Rubbish

This week, we sit down for a chat with musician/author/artist Steven Warwick who also has the (perhaps dubious) honour of being the origin of this podcast's name!

This is the first installment of our conversation with Steven, where we talk about his latest book, Notes On Evil, get into the idea of weirdness in art and slowly drift towards Alan Clarke’s 1974 film Penda’s Fen. Be sure to stay tuned for the second part, where we get more into Penda, and lots of other stuff besides!

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Steven Warwick

Notes On Evil purchase link

Penda’s Fen by Alan Clarke

The Ice House

Tim Buckley album cover

Glow: the Autobiography of Rick James

Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger

William Burroughs’ Nike ad (directed by Sleazy from Coil)

Pearls Before Swine (the Boyd Rice movie)

Blood Harvest (film)

Birth by Jonathan Glazer

Nathan Barley (series)

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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This week we tackle a stone-cold classic, a massively influential and Important™ film that (somehow) neither of us had ever seen before: it’s Night of the Hunter!

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Night of the Hunter by Charles Laughton

Night of the Hunter (novel) by Davis Grubb

Premonitions Following an Evil Deed by David Lynch

David Grubbs

Harry Powers (serial killer)

Bort / Bart

Carnivàle (series)

Bart D. Ehrman

The Best of Youth by Marco Tullio Giordana

Phill Niblock

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Some thoughts cut from last week's episode on Censor. Riffing on changing tastes, fashion, the question of progress and what being "ahead of the curve" really gets you.

Music by Sam Jones & Wyatt Keusch

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2021’s Censor is set in the world of British film censorship and the video nasty era, which was covered in last week’s episode. This week, we get into the perils of single vision while talking our way through the film.

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Censor by Prano Bailey-Bond

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Arthur Machen quote on evil

William Blake vs. the World by John Higgs

Prano-Bailey Bond BFI interview

Podcast: The Ride

Michael Taylor

Unexplained podcast episode 6: Demons In Suburbia

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Our episode on Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond brought up the “video nasties” list, which was part of a particularly absurd media censorship situation in the United Kingdom, starting in the 1980s. This week, we dig into what the “video nasties” were, and why they’re relevant to the type of thing we like to talk about here on our show. This also serves as an intro to next week’s episode, on 2021’s Censor, a Welsh film dealing directly with the “video nasties” era.

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“Video Nasties”

Mary Whitehouse

Whitehouse (band)

Red Asphalt

That Robocop scene

Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY)

England’s Hidden Reverse by David Keenan

Who Killed Mr. Moonlight? by David J

Repelish by Mogwai

That John Balance light/dark quote

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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As a preview of the kind of thing happening over on our Patreon, here's an excerpt from our recent discussion on the oft-maligned musical genre, nu-metal! Become a patron on Patreon to hear the full two-hour episode.

Following on from last week’s supplement, it’s our full discussion of Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond!

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The Beyond by Lucio Fulci

In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki

Stupid Fuck by Sonny Sharrock

“This is fine” meme

“Won’t somebody please think of the cildren?!”

Elephant (1989) by Alan Clarke

Clark Ashton Smith

Zdzisław Beksiński (painter)

Kur (ancient Mesopotamian underworld)

Grandpa Simpson tattoo

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Wyatt reads an excerpt from Stephen Thrower’s book, Beyond Terror: the Films of Lucio Fulci, in advance of next week’s episode on Fulci’s The Beyond.

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Beyond Terror: the Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower

“Video nasty”

Music by David Paha

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Casey Anderson returns for our first episode of 2024! We discuss Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 1997 classic Cure.

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Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Tokyo subway sarin attack

Underground by Haruki Murakami

Thomas Ligotti’s Crampton part one and two

Seven by David Fincher

Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky

Franz Mesmer

Edward Bernays

James Ellroy

Closure by Wyatt Keusch

Birthday Boys “Baby Hitler” sketch

Peter Watts

Embassytown by China Mieville

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Burial (musician)

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Wyatt was visiting his dad in Berlin, so we conscripted him into this discussion of 2018’s Suspiria remake!

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Suspiria (2018) by Luca Guadagnino

Psychometry

William Friedkin curse

Baader-Meinhof Group (Red Army Faction)

“Deutscher Herbst”

Perfume: the Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Süskind

Night Man (TV series)

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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